The BIG Picture with Dianna David

Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009
Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: Norman Rothstein Theatre (West 41st Ave / Oak St)
Street: 950 West 41st Avenue
City/Town: Vancouver, BC
Phone: 6047804363
Email: info@diannadavid.net

Come see what Dianna David is up to now!

She has a bag of tricks that keep you on the edge of your seat from hip hop dancing, clowning, miming, shadow play, multi-media and contact juggling. This multi-talented physical performer brings a show that you will never forget.

THE BIG PICTURE will encompass the pieces that have inspired her current touring production, TAKE A CLOSER LOOK, which will be featured in the second half of the show.

TAKE A CLOSER LOOK has been on a 75-show tour since April and has been getting rave reviews in 40 cities all across BC. This is the only public viewing of this production this year…so DON’T MISS IT!

This is also the OFFICIAL DEBUT of a recent addition to dubD Productions, Miss Charity Zapanta - co-creator, multi-media designer, and director. She has been a key player behind the scenes of many of Dianna's performances in the past year and has discovered her passion and talents in creating and directing live performance.

Don't miss it! Tickets are LIMITED so RESERVE BY PHONE or EMAIL

Advance $15/students, $18/adults
Door $18/students, $22/adults
Doors: 7pm, Show: 7:30p

Ten Nights of Dream

Photo of Colleen Lanki by Eugene Lin

Ten Nights of Dream

May 21-23, Centre A, Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art

2 West Hastings Street

CURTAIN: 8:30pm

TICKETS: $20/$16

BOX OFFICE: TicketsTonight 604.684.2787

The uncanny world of dreams and the unconscious is brought to life in Ten Nights of Dream, TomoeArts’ multidisciplinary production featuring nihon buyoh–inspired choreography, a rich musical blending of shakuhachi and electro-acoustic sounds, and stunning projections, all based on the writing of one of Japan’s greatest novelists.

A woman buried with a piece of fallen star; a blind child riding on the back of the dreamer; a huge ship going nowhere; a panama hat; a barber; a goldfish seller; a thousand pigs. These haunting images are found in a series of extraordinary and little-known tales written by one of Japan’s greatest novelists Natsume Sôseki. In Ten Nights of Dream (May 21-23, Centre A), TomoeArts artistic director Colleen Lanki performs the characters and images from Natsume’s epic work. Lanki’s choreography is based on the forms and aesthetics of nihon buyoh (Japanese classical dance). Lanki, who studied Japanese classical dance for more than a decade, works to push the forms beyond their traditional boundaries and plays with the principles of time and space. For more: http://www.colleenlanki.com/

Ten Nights of Dream features original music by Alcvin Ramos, in which he fuses traditional Japanese instruments and electro-acoustic sounds. Ramos is a master player/teacher of the shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese bamboo flute and director of Bamboo-In Shakuhachi Centre. He heads the extraordinary world music group Dharmakasa. For more: http://www.bamboo-in.com/

Visual projections and lighting are designed by a team of senior design students from UBC, Craig Alfredson, David Kim, Yulia Shtern, and Ana Maria Espinoza Vaca, under professor Robert Gardiner, one of Canada’s foremost scenographers. Costumes and sets are designed by Yulia Shtern. Ten Nights of Dream’s director, Matthew Romantini, brings experience in dance, physical theatre and adaptation of non-theatrical sources for the stage.

TomoeArts (pronounced toh-moh-ay) is a new company that promotes, teaches and performs nihon buyoh (Japanese classical dance). It creates and presents performances incorporating the forms and aesthetics of Japanese traditional performing arts. Ten Nights of Dream is presented as part of the explorASIAN Festival celebrating Asian Heritage Month in Metro Vancouver.

LINK, Desirée Dunbar Dance Projects

LINK, come experience community dance. A vibrant evening of contemporary and cultural dance with performances by Startdance, Continuum Dance Co, the Roundhouse Community Dancers, Flamenco Rosario and Lorita Leung Chinese Dance Co. Thursday, May 21, 7PM at the Roundhouse Community and Arts Centre. Tickets by donation at door. For more information call (604) 713-1800. http://www.roundhouse.ca/